Siamak F. Shahandashti

PhD CS, MSc BSc EE
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)
 Cyber Security and Privacy Research Group
 Dept. of Computer Science
 University of York, UK

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Latest News

2025-04-25: The end-to-end verifiable electronic voting system we designed, with Feng Hao, is employed in the inaugural UNITA Students Assembly elections, with over 100 thousand electors. See:  ePrint of paper at ESORICS'16,  Warwick Press Release
2025-03-26: I am joining the PETS 2026 program committee / PoPETS 2025 editorial board. The deadlines are in May, August, November, and February. See: PETS/PoPETS 2026 CfP
2025-03-14: Hina's work "Cuckoo's Nest: An Ultra-Lightweight DoS-Resilient Bitcoin Mempool" has been accepted to ICBC 2025. See:  ePrint,  Code,  Dataset,  ICBC Webpage
Older:  News archive

Selected Recent Publications

[BAS25] Hina Binte Haq, Syed Taha Ali and Siamak F. Shahandashti. "Cuckoo's Nest: An Ultra-Lightweight DoS-Resilient Bitcoin Mempool". ICBC 2025 (to appear).
 ePrint |  Code |  Dataset

[CBS24] Ali Cherry, Konstantinos Barmpis and Siamak F. Shahandashti. "The Emperor is Now Clothed: A Secure Governance Framework for Web User Authentication through Password Managers". ICICS 2024, LNCS 15057: 233–252, Springer, 2024.
 ePrint |  DoI |  Code |  BibTeX

[BKPS24] Christopher Battarbee, Delaram Kahrobaei, Ludovic Perret, and Siamak F. Shahandashti. "A Subexponential Quantum Algorithm for the Semdirect Discrete Logarithm Problem". PQCrypto 2024, LNCS 14771: 202–226, 2024.
 ePrint |  DoI |  Slides |  Video |  BibTeX

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Selected Funded Projects (current)

PRIME: Protecting Minority Ethnic Communities Online
PHAWM: Participatory Harm Auditing Workbenches and Methodologies


Selected Academic Service

Program Committee (current):

University Service (current):
 Co-Chair, Physical Sciences Ethics Committee
 Member, Information Security Board
 Member, Academic Ethics Compliance Committee

Departmental Service (selected, current):
 Lead, Cyber Security and Privacy Research Group
 Deputy Chair, Graduate School Board
 Programme Lead, MSc Cyber Security

 Full Academic Service List


Student Supervision

Current Research Students:
Charles Dodd (with  Pooya Farshim)
Najla Aldaraani (with  Helen Petrie)
Ibtihal Alotaibi (with  Helen Petrie)

 Full Student Supervision List (and Information for Prospective Students)


Teaching

Current Module: Cryptography Theory and Practice (  CTAP-H /  CTAP-M )

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On Other Platforms


Contact Details

 Email: x.y@york.ac.uk
    where x = siamak
    and y = shahandashti
 Public Key:  OpenPGP File
 Office: CSE/235 ( map)
 Tel: +44 1904 325413

Postal Address

Dept of Computer Science
University of York
York, YO10 5GH
United Kingdom

Previously at

  • Newcastle Uni, UK
  • Victoria Uni, Australia
  • ENS, Paris, France
  • Wollongong Uni, Australia